GRAPP 2008 - International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

3^rd International Conference on
Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

22 - 25 January, 2008 Funchal, Madeira - Portugal

Call for Papers

Scope \| Conference Areas \| Area 1: Geometry and Modeling \| Area 2: Rendering \| Area 3: Animation and Simulation \| Area 4: Interactive Environments \| Keynote Speakers \| Venue \| Proceedings and Book Publication \| Secretariat \| Conference Chair \| Program Chair \| Program Committee

GRAPP is co-organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, and Universidade da Madeira. SCOPE The International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Graphics. The conference will be structured along four main tracks, covering different aspects related to Computer Graphics, from Modelling to Rendering, including Animation and Interactive Environments. We welcome papers describing original work in any of the areas listed below. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference themes and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. CONFERENCE AREAS Each of these topic areas is expanded below. Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also allowed. 1. Geometry and Modeling 2. Rendering 3. Animation and Simulation 4. Interactive Environments AREA 1: GEOMETRY AND MODELING - Geometric Computing - Modeling and Algorithms - Fundamental Methods and Algorithms - Scene and Object Modeling - Solid and Heterogeneous Modeling - Surface Modeling - Modeling of Natural Scenes and Phenomena - Physics-Based Modeling - Multi-Resolution Modeling - Image-Based Modeling - Texture Models, Analysis, and Synthesis - Reflection and Illumination Models - Model Validation - CAGD - CAD/CAM Systems - Graphics Architectures - Sketch-Based Modelling AREA 2: RENDERING - Systems and Software Architectures for Rendering - Rendering Algorithms - Real-Time Rendering - Parallel Rendering - Image-Based Rendering - Volume Rendering - Point-Based Rendering - Lighting and Appearance - Shadows, Translucency and Visibility - Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Painting-like rendering, Drawing - Rendering Hardware AREA 3: ANIMATION AND SIMULATION - Animation Systems - Animation Algorithms and Techniques - Animation Languages - Animation from Motion Capture - Character Animation - Behavioural Animation - Human Figure Animation - Facial Animation - Animation of Particle Systems - Plausible Motion Simulation - Animation and Simulation of Natural Environments - Special Effects - Real-time Visual Simulation AREA 4: INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS - Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments - Distributed Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality - Collaborative Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments - Virtual Tours - Virtual Humans and Artificial Life - Real-time Graphics - Graphics in Computer Games - Collision Detection - Graphical Interfaces - Mobile Interfaces - Advanced User Interfaces - Hardware Technologies for Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Adrian Hiton, Computer Vision and Graphics at the University of Surrey, U.K. Prof. Geneviève Lucet, Computer Services for Research at the UNAM, Mexico Prof. Peter Sturm, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France VENUE The conference will be held in the Hotel Tivoli Ocean Park. The Tivoli Ocean Park is a truly stunning property located 5 minutes from Funchal city centre and 30 minutes from Madeira International Airport. This award-winning hotel overlooks the beachfront promenade and guests are guaranteed gorgeous views of the sea with direct access from the hotel to the sandy beach. PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. CONFERENCE CHAIR José Braz, EST/IPS, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Nuno Jardim Nunes, University of Madeira, Portugal João Madeiras Pereira, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Francisco Abad, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Sergey V. Ablameyko, United Institute of Informatics Problems, Belarus Marco Agus, CRS4 - Visual Computing, Italy Trémeau Alain, Universite Jean Monnet, France Carlos Ureña Almagro, U. Granada, Spain Alessandro Artusi, IMCS Intrercollege, Cyprus Marco Attene, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Italy Dolors Ayala, U. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Sergei Azernikov, University of Michigan, USA Jacob Barhak, University of Michigan, USA Curzio Basso, Università di Genova, Italy Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology, Nederland Jiri Bittner, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Manfred Bogen, Fraunhofer-Institute for Media Communication IMK, Germany Kadi Bouatouch, Université de Rennes, France Ronan Boulic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Willem F. Bronsvoort, Delft University of Technology, Nederland Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University, Canada Guido Brunnett, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Sam Buss, University of California at San Diego, USA Patrick Callet, École Central de Paris, France Emilio Camahort, U. Politècnica de València, Spain Pedro Cano, University of Granada, Spain Juan Carlos Torres Cantero, Universidad de Granada, Spain Maria Beatriz Carmo, FC Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Leocadio González Casado, Almeria University, Spain Teresa Chambel, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Chun-Fa Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Norishige Chiba, Iwate University, Japan Hwan-Gue Cho, Pusan National University, Korea Min-Hyung Choi, University of Colorado at Denver, USA Miguel Chover, U. Jaume I, Castelló, Spain Ana Paula Cláudio, University of Lisbon, Portugal Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France Nuno Correia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal António Cardoso Costa, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Pere Brunet Crosa, U. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Balázs Csébfalvi, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary Carsten Dachsbacher, INRIA Sopha-Antipolis, France John Dingliana, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Jean Michel Dischler, Université de Strasbourg, France Sasa Divjak, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Stéphane Donikian, IRISA, France David Duce, Oxford Brookes University, UK Roman Durikovic, University of Aizu, Slovak Republic James Edge, University of Surrey, UK Francisco R. Feito, U. de Jaén, Spain Petr Felkel, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Fernando Nunes Ferreira, FE Universidade do Porto, Portugal Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brasil Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia Joaquim Filipe, EST Setúbal / IPS, Portugal Anath Fischer, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Julian Flores, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain Leila De Floriani, University of Genova, Italy Doron Friedman, University College London, UK Martin Fuchs, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany Ioannis Fudos, University of Loannina, Greece Tadahiro Fujimoto, Iwate University, Japan Aphrodite Galata, University of Manchester, UK Manuel Gamito, University of Sheffield, UK Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada Miguel Gea, University of Granada, Spain Mashhuda Glencross, The University of Manchester, UK Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4 - Visual Computing, Italy Abel Gomes, UBI Portugal, Portugal Cindy Grimm, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Tom Gross, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany Alain Grumbach, École Nationale Supérieure des Télecommunications, France Diego Guiterrez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Mario Gutiérrez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Peter Hall, University of Bath, UK Helwig Hauser, Bergen, Norway Vlastimil Havran, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic José Tiberio Hernández, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Nancy Hitschfeld, ETH Zurich, Chile Christoph Hoffmann, Purdue University, USA Toby Howard, Manchester University, UK Zhiyong Huang, National University of Singapore (Department of Computer Science), Singapore Roger Hubbold, University of Manchester, UK Andres Iglesias, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Jiri Janacek, Institute of Physiology ASCR, Czech Republic Frederik Jansen, Delft Univesity of Technology, Nederland Robert Joan-Arnyo, U. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Andrew Johnson, UIC - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Chris Joslin, Carleton University, Canada Marcelo Kallmann, University Merced, USA Henry Kang, University of Missouri, USA Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Jan Kautz, MIT, USA HyungSeok Kim, University of Geneva, Italy Young J. Kim, Ewha University, Korea Stanislav Klimenko, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Josef Kohout, University of West Bohemia (Department of Computer Science adn Engineering), Czech Republic Ivana Kolingerova, University of West Bohemia (Department of Computer Science adn Engineering), Czech Republic Martin Kraus, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany David H. Laidlaw, Brown University, Providence, USA Caroline Larboulette, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain Marc Erich Latoschik, University of Bielefeld, Germany Wonsook Lee, Ottawa University, Canada Miguel Leitão, ISEP, Portugal Hendrik Lensch, MPI Informatik, Germany Suresh Lodha, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Celine Loscos, Universitat de Girona, Spain Steve Maddock, University of Sheffield, UK Joaquim Madeira, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal, Portugal Claus B. Madsen, , Denmark Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland Marcus Magnor, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany Stephen Mann, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Manzke, Trinity College Dublin, UK Adérito Marcos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Tom Mertens, MIT CSAIL, USA Dominique Michelucci, Université de Bourgogne, France Laurent Moccozet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ramon Molla, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain David Mould, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Matthias Mueller-Ficher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Department of Computer Graphics), Czech Republic Franck Multon, University Rennes /IRISA, France Ken Museth, Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden Laszlo Neumann, University of Girona, Spain Gennadiy Nikishkov, University of Aizu, Japan Alexander Nischelwitzer, Graz University of Applied Sciences, Austria Marc Olano, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Miguel A. Otaduy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Zhigeng Pan, , Zhejiang University, China Georgios Papaioannou, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Greece Alexander Pasko, Hosei University, Japan Nuria Pelechano, University of Pennsylvania, USA João Paulo Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Portugal Bernard Péroche, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Steve Pettifer, University of Manchester, UK Julien Pettré, INRIA-Rennes, France Dimitri Plemenos, University of Limoges, France Voicu Popescu, Purdue University, USA Anna Puig, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Enrico Puppo, University of Genova, Italy Werner Purgathofer, Technische Umiversitat Wien, Austria Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Stephane Redon, INRIA, France Inmaculada Rodríguez, University of Barcelona, Spain Przemyslaw Rokita, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Daniela M. Romano, University of Sheffield, UK Bodo Rosenhahn, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany Paulo Sampaio, Universidade da Madeira, Portugal Manuel Próspero dos Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Muhammad Sarfraz, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia Francis Schmitt, École Nationale Supérieure des Télecommunications, France Rafael J. Segura, U. de Jaén, Spain Ariel Shamir, IDC, Israel, Israel Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP/INESC Porto, Portugal Oliver Staadt, University of California at Davis, USA Ayellet Tal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Tiow Seng Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jie Tang, Nanjing University, China José Carlos de Gouveia Teixeira, FCT Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Matthias Teschner, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland Holger Theisel, Bielefeld University, Germany Christian Theobalt, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany Gui Yun Tian, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Walid Tizani, University of Nottingham, UK Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA Pere-Pau Vasquez, Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain Francisco Velasco, University of Granada, Spain Luiz Velho, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brasil Frederic Vexo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland Max Viergever, University of Utrecht, Nederland Anna Vilanova, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Ivan Viola, University of Bergen, Norway Andreas Weber, University of Bonn, Germany Chionh Eng Wee, National University of Singapore (Department of Computer Science), Singapore Daniel Weiskopf, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada Alexander Wilkie, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Michael Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Burkhard Wuensche, University of Auckland, New Zeland Gabriel Zachmann, Clausthal University, Germany Jian J Zhang, Bournemouth University, UK Richard Zhang, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada Jianmin Zheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Guy Zimmerman, Bowling Green State University, USA SECRETARIAT CONTACTS GRAPP Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: + 44 203 014 5434 e-mail: grapp.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://grapp.visigrapp.org

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